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Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko

Politician

Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko · Aliyu Wamakko				[sources]
Other name	Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko · Aliyu Wamakko				[sources]
Birth date	1953-03-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Wamako				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Nigeria				[sources]
Country	Nigeria				[sources]
Citizenship	Nigeria				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Aliyu				[sources]
Last name	Wamakko				[sources]
Middle name	Magatakarda				[sources]
Title	Sen.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4727555				[sources]
Position	Governor of Sokoto State (2007-2008) · Governor of Sokoto State (2008-2015) · Senate (member, 2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-) · member of the Senate of Nigeria (2015-2019) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Pittsburgh				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Nigerian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sokoto North	-	-
Member of the Senate	2015-06-09

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,560

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,481

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Nigeria Joining the Dots PEPs and PEP Relatives4,391

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Nigeria and their relatives from the Joining the Dots project.

Nigeria · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons data by Chipper40,806

National and sub-national Nigerian Politically Exposed Persons collected by Chipper

Nigeria · Chipper · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,631

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,036

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-70286a75-669d-4137-bab8-33d7350e3aaf · ng-chip-pep-ng-0020707 · ng-dots-aliyu-wamakko-1953-03-01-district · ng-dots-aliyu-magatakarda-wamakko-1953-03-01-district-sokoto

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